Fri 25 August 2023: The Niger junta, which took power in a military coup on July 26, has forged a military alliance with neighboring Burkina Faso and Mali, whose rulers also took office in coups. On Thursday, the foreign ministers of the three countries made a joint declaration in Niamey, Niger’s capital. The foreign ministers […]
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Fri 25 August 2023: The Kremlin has dismissed rumours it had requested the assassination of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who reportedly died in a plane crash on Wednesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a briefing,”There is a lot of speculation around the plane crash and the tragic death of the passengers, including Yevgeny […]
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Fri 25 August 2023: The Danish government will ban public desecration of the Quran, the country’s justice minister said on Friday. Peter Hummelgaard said the government will introduce a bill to ban the burning of religious scriptures in public places, Ekstra Bladet newspaper reported. The move comes after a string of desecrations of Islam’s holy […]
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Fri 25 August 2023: Former United States President Donald Trump has returned to the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, with a post showing his mug shot from his booking at Fulton County Jail in Georgia earlier in the day. Trump reclaimed direct access on Thursday to the public on the platform that banned him following the […]
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Thu 24 August 2023: New Delhi: UWW (United World Wrestling) the world governing body for wrestling, has suspended the WFI for not conducting its elections on time, a development that will not allow Indian grapplers to compete at the upcoming World Championships under the Indian flag. The Indian wrestlers will have to compete as ‘neutral athletes’ […]
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Thu 24 August 2023: Islamabad, Pakistan – An antiterrorism court in Pakistan has allowed the police to interrogate and arrest Imran Khan in a case related to the attack on an army building during the protests that followed the former prime minister’s brief arrest on corruption charges in May this year. Khan, 70, is currently serving […]
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Thu 24 August 2023: The much-anticipated expansion of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) bloc has gained momentum with the current members having collectively decided to extend invitations to six countries to become full members, effective from January 2024. “As the five BRICS countries, we have reached agreement on the guiding principles, […]
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Thu 24 August 2023: Pro-Kremlin television station Tsargrad TV has reported, citing its own sources, that Prigozhin’s body has been provisionally identified, but that DNA analysis was still pending, according to the DPA news agency. The crash, which remains shrouded in mystery, has ignited speculation about how Prigozhin, an outspoken critic of top Russian defence […]
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Screen grab Twitter. Wed 23 August 2023: Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group that led a mutiny against Russia’s army in June, was on the list of passengers of a plane that has crashed in Russia. “The plane that crashed in the Tver Region listed Yevgeny Prigozhin among its passengers, [Russia’s aviation […]
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Wed 23 August 2023: Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded areas in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The Sutlej river breached its banks on Sunday, inundating several hundred towns and thousands of acres of cropland in the central region. Residents and livestock have been evacuated to higher ground by emergency services. “We have rescued 100,000 […]
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